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SCOTUS, the Video Game

Posted on June 05, 2008
Speaking at the 5th annual Games For Change conference at Parsons The New School For Design, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor unveiled a new project she is spearheading called "Our Courts," described as an "online, interactive civic education...

Publicly Disgraced Patent Litigator Strikes Back

Posted on June 05, 2008
Six months after he was fired for inappropriate conduct, the former head of IP at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman in New York has filed suit against his former employers. Once considered a rising star among patent litigators, Jeremy Pitcock...

And Even More on the Mess in Minnesota

Posted on June 04, 2008
Just last week, we brought you up to date on the mess in Minnesota -- the union-organizing-related charges and counter-charges disrupting the office of Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson. As we told you last week, an investigation into the office...

New Life for Notorious Nanny Turned Lawyer

Posted on June 04, 2008
The murder trial of British-native Neil Entwistle getting underway this week in a Massachusetts courtroom -- which I wrote about in a separate post here today -- raises memories of the infamous nanny murder trial in Massachusetts of British-born au...

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Is There a Right to a Jury Consultant?

Posted on June 04, 2008
One Boston reporter calls it the Neil Entwistle circus. It is the trial getting underway with jury selection this week of the 29-year-old British native accused of murdering his 27-year-old wife and their 9-month-old daughter. The horror of the crime...

Law Firms Learning How to Deal With the Gossip Mill

Posted on June 03, 2008
Law firm gossip sites like Above the Law or Greedy Associates have been around for at least half a decade and are still growing in influence, forcing law firms to come to terms with the impact that these sites have...

Are Those Women's Initiative Meetings a Waste of Time?

Posted on June 03, 2008
Can women's initiatives help break the glass ceiling at law firms? Denise Howell doesn't think so, and explains why in her American Lawyer column, "Is a Women's Initiative Meeting Worth Your Time?". Howell begins by setting the scene at a...

Spence Wins Another for the Defense

Posted on June 03, 2008
No matter the outcome, Gerry Spence's defense of Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger was bound for the history books. If convicted of violating campaign finance laws, Fieger would have broken Spence's career-long perfect record of acquittals in criminal trials...

If Kickbacks Are Good for the Government, Why Not for the Class Action Lawyer?

Posted on June 03, 2008
The sentencing of class action lawyer Mel Weiss to two and a half years in prison for kickbacks to plaintiffs in shareholder suits has lead some bloggers to wonder why the government criminalizes payments to plaintiffs to induce them to...

Study: Patent Litigation Protects Holders

Posted on June 02, 2008
Patent litigation is picking up. We knew that, of course, but PricewaterhouseCoopers provides the numbers to back it up in its 2008 patent litigation study. (Full report in PDF.) And with that growth in litigation has come a corresponding increase...

Blawger's Toughest Negotiation: Life's End

Posted on June 02, 2008
The wonder of reading blogs is in part the element of surprise. You never know the direction a blogger will take on any given day -- often neither does the blogger. A highly focused professional blog can suddenly become sublimely...

U.S. Lawyer Arrested Over Blog Post

Posted on June 02, 2008
A U.S. lawyer was arrested Saturday and charged in a Singapore court over comments he made on his blog and in an e-mail that were critical of the judge presiding over a defamation case. The lawyer, Gopalan Nair, is a...

Folos: Cross-Dressing Judge and Unethical Ethicists

Posted on June 02, 2008
Updates on two stories we've been following here: Just two weeks ago, we checked in on the will-he-or-won't-he status of Robert Somma, the U.S. bankruptcy judge in Massachusetts who resigned, then un-resigned, from the bench after his arrest for DUI....

Analysis of Legal Billing -- 76 Percent of Firms Are Discounting Fees

Posted on May 30, 2008
Recall those $1,000/hr billing rates that had the blogosphere buzzing last summer? Turns out, they may really be worth only $900/hr based on the results of a 2008 Fees and Pricing Benchmark Report released by Rain Today and summarized by...

DOJ Civil Rights Division Sued for Discrimination

Posted on May 30, 2008
Charged with the task of enforcing federal anti-discrimination statutes the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division often finds itself involved in a variety of civil rights actions around the country. But for all of its experience in civil rights case,...

Women Make Better Lawyers, Says Ad

Posted on May 30, 2008
Ever argue with a woman? That's the slogan on an ad for the 100 percent women-owned Buffalo law firm, Schroder, Josephs and Associates (H/T: Adrants.com). The ad, which concludes with the pitch line "Let us make the case for your...

Second Circuit Permits High School Bullying -- By Administrators

Posted on May 30, 2008
Let's say that a high school student disses a popular cheerleader on her personal blog. Learning of the insults, the cheerleader rallies her buddies at school to make life hell for the blogging student by blocking her path in the...

Same Sex Marriage in... New York?

Posted on May 29, 2008
We all know that Massachusetts and California are the only states to have legalized gay marriage, but The New York Times reports today that New York Gov. David Paterson has directed that state's agencies to begin to revise their policies...

The Lawyer Who Was Dropped From a Window

Posted on May 29, 2008
Boston-area lawyer William M. Sheridan Jr. doesn't talk much about the day he was dropped out of a window. In fact, he doesn't even remember it. After all, he was only seven months old when it happened. But the drop...

Even More on the Mess in Minnesota

Posted on May 29, 2008
It has been more than two months since we've checked in on the messy union-organizing campaign in the office of Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson. (See previous posts here and here.) But now we have a reason to return to...

Two Useful Guides for Summer Interns

Posted on May 29, 2008
For law students venturing out into the real world this summer, here are two resources to pave your way: Transitioning from One-L to Summer Legal Work Podcasts. Suffolk University Law School's legal research and writing program has produced this series...

Studies Show Online Video Can Help Law Firms Snag Clients

Posted on May 28, 2008
The results of recent research by FindLaw suggest that adding an online video to a law firm Web site can help lure clients. FindLaw's studies show that when choosing a lawyer online, consumers visit an average of 4.8 sites before...

Can Outsourcing Violate Attorney-Client Privilege or Waive the Fourth Amendment?

Posted on May 28, 2008
Plenty of law bloggers are discussing a declaratory action by Bethesda, Md.-based law firm, Newman McIntosh & Hennessey, seeking a ruling on whether outsourcing privileged client documents for review to companies located outside of the country could result in a...

More Proof That Blogging Is Good for You

Posted on May 28, 2008
A few months ago, I hypothesized that blogging could help lawyers beat the blues by giving them a tool to build connections and engage in conversation with others, and in so doing, eradicate the sense of isolation that can serve...

Presidential Politics Roundup

Posted on May 28, 2008
It's been a while since our last Presidential Politics Roundup, but the primaries still continue as Hillary Clinton presses on in her bid to win the Democrat nomination. Here's the latest law-related news from the election front: Democrats Can Restore...

Sweet Lessons for Law Firms, From a Vending Machine

Posted on May 28, 2008
Following in the tradition of Forrest Gump, who discerned the meaning of life from a box of chocolates, Neil Squillante of Technolawyer shares some sweet lessons about law firm management that he's learned from observing the vending machine in his...

List du Jour: Law's Most Creative Moments

Posted on May 27, 2008
Lawyers love lists. But here is a new tack on an old idea: the 100 most creative moments in American law. Intrigued by the role played by innovation in law, Robert Blomquist, a professor at Valparaiso University School of Law,...

Memorial Day Blawg Review

Posted on May 27, 2008
Patent lawyer Stephen R. Albainy-Jenei may have been a last-minute substitute to serve as host of Blawg Review #161, after work got in the way of the blogger who had originally signed up, but the founder of the blog Patent...

The Most Influential Minority Lawyers

Posted on May 27, 2008
The National Law Journal begins this week's profile of the 50 most influential minority lawyers in the United States with this sobering reminder: Minority lawyers make up just 5.4 percent of partners at U.S. law firms. For minority women, the...

In BC Speech, Mukasey Defends Yoo

Posted on May 27, 2008
Attorney General Michael Mukasey gave the commencement address Friday at Boston College Law School, acknowledging the controversy over his appearance but nonetheless using the occasion to defend the government lawyers who are now under attack for their roles in drafting...

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